Acacia Pied Barbet

Acacia Pied Barbet
Black-throated Barbet (above), and Acacia Pied Barbet (below); illustration by Joseph Smit, 1891
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Lybiidae
Genus: Tricholaema
Species: T. leucomelas
Binomial name
Tricholaema leucomelas
(Boddaert, 1783)
Synonyms
  • Tricholaema affine

The Acacia Pied Barbet or Pied Barbet (Tricholaema leucomelas) is a species of bird in the Lybiidae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

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